Halloween Events 2009

The Masquerade held a Halloween costume party throughout all three of its venues on Oct. 30. A few hundred people showed up for the Halloween-style rave as some danced with light, some hung from silk and all were treated to the techno sounds of the live band.

(Photos by Dustin Chambers)

Big Boi's party was held at Stankonia in the Courvoisier Lounge.  It was a fundraiser for the rapper's charity, The Big Kidz Foundation.  Big Boi was dressed up as "Dick Fury", as in he wore his suit from the "The Way You Move" video.

(Photos by Dustin Chambers)

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For sheer literary merit and respectability, Frankenstein has cast a shadow over all horror novels published over the two subsequent centuries. Picking Mary Shelley's 1818 classic seems like an easy out, though, which ignores more recent landmarks of the genre like Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. The new century has...

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So far the 13 Days of Halloween series on the Culture Surfing blog has beheld scary things ever (movie trailers, short stories, TV shows, songs, etc.) from a safe distance. Some of the spookiest, most creative visions of the year, however, might be on view right down the street from you at this very moment. The past couple of decades have seen Halloween lawn displays evolve from...

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So far 13 Days of Halloween has beheld scary things (movie trailers, short stories, TV shows, songs, etc.) from a safe distance. Some of the spookiest, most creative visions of the year, however, might be on view right down the street from you at this very moment. The past couple of decades have seen Halloween lawn displays evolve from modest Jack-o-Lanterns to sprawling, grisly...

For all of you stressing out over a scary, last-minute costume, you can finally relax. Kim Zolciak of the Real Housewives of Atlanta has a Halloween costume kit based on her "fabulous," wine-guzzling life. I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of Halloween Housewives at Pride this weekend...now that drag queen is scary!

While shivering over the scariest stage plays yesterday, I neglected to mention Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The sung-through musical seems so sharply different from scary "straight" plays that it belongs in another category altogether.

The vast majority of pop tunes about monsters and murderers tend to be cool, not creepy, from...

You know how in horror movies, the victims-to-be always open the forbidden doors, no matter how loudly you yell, "Don't go in there!" at the screen? Well, Culture Surfing can't resist counting down the days to Halloween with examples of the biggest scares in pop culture, across multiple media. Think of them as the razor-blade apples in your Trick-or-Treat bag.

Let's creak that door open...

Despite the cold, hordes of Atlantans spilled into the streets of Little Five Points to show off their best zombie imitations among other frightening monster facsimiles during the Halloween Parade Oct. 17

(Photos by Ryan Purcell)